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Twitters Cost in Productivity? Zero
Im not sure whether Pat Phelan of roam4free has decided to join the Techmeme troll parade, but his post about the cost of Twitter is ridiculous...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2008-01-07

Can Ian Rogers Help Save Music?
Can Ian Rogers " who left grad school to tour with The Beastie Boys, and then later helped to run the company behind Winamp...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2008-01-07

Who will buy Digg? Anyone? Google?
The Digg-sale plot continues to thicken. First there were rumours that Digg was for sale " asking price $300-million " and then there were...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-12-18

Zuckerberg (not) Smarter Than I Thought
Update: Glad I added all those sarcastic caveats to my description of Valleywag below " it seems someone at Facebook played Owen Thomas...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-12-10

Deadpool Claims Another Victim: Edgeio
Mike Arrington is between a rock and a hard place this morning: He has some news about a failed Web 2.0 company joining...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-12-07

Nokia's new feature: Comes With Crap
A free music-download service on your mobile? Cool. Nokias new Comes With Music offer? Dumb. The details are sketchy so far, but...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-12-05

Facebook Coffers Go Ka-ching
Despite all the good-natured pokes (or is that Super Pokes?) that Kara Swisher has taken at young Mark Zuckerberg, shes got a scoop...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-11-30

Online Ads Up - Just Not Enough
Yet another in a long (and I mean long -- were talking a decade or so) line of depressing declines in newspaper advertising levels...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-11-21

MP3tunes Lawsuit Update: Robertsons View
For anyone whos interested, Michael Robertson -- whose mp3tunes.com service is being sued by EMI for what the record label claims...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-11-15

Digging a Hole in the WSJ Pay Wall
Well, Rupert Murdoch has been dropping pretty big hints that the Wall Street Journal pay wall is a-comin down pretty soon...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-11-14

$300-Million? I Could Digg That
A great rumour from Valleywag, and one that actually makes some sense to me: Owen Thomas says he has heard that Digg is close to a deal...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-11-08

Music Sales: Is P2P to Blame or Not?
When Industry Canada came out with a study last week that found file-sharing doesnt lead to reduced CD sales " and in fact may even...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-11-08

Radiohead album: Half-full or half-empty?
In one of the first comprehensive looks at who paid what for Radioheads recent In Rainbows launch, comScore says that more than 1.2 million people used the download site in the month of...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-11-06

Bubble Alert: Amazon Over-Inflated?
Facebook isnt the only company to be raising questions (in my mind at least) about some of the valuations that are out there. It wasnt until...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-10-25

Apple Knocks it Out of the Park
Like many people, I expected Apples results for the latest quarter to be good " after all, sales of the iPhone seem to be humming along...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-10-23

Radiohead Pulls in $10-Million In a Day
When Radioheads pay what you want download experiment was first announced a couple of weeks ago, it seemed obvious that fans (particularly the poor ones) would like the idea.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-10-16

Discovery Discovers HowStuffWorks
The Wall Street Journal got the scoop on Discovery Communications latest move into new media (see, old media can still break stories):
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-10-15

Craigslist racks up another $75-million
The ease with which Craigslist can boost its revenues truly boggles the mind. According to several estimates, the privately-held classified provider controlled by founder Craig Newmark...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-10-08

CNET to Buy TechCrunch -- Why Not?
Boy, Henry I used to be a famous Wall Street analyst Blodget is sure on a roll " or make that a troll. Today hes got a post about how...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-10-03

BudTV Gets a Reprieve--and Maybe Thats Good
I must admit, when I read that BudTV had gotten a reprieve and was going to have its lease extended to next year, my first response was...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-09-27

Damn -- Only Got 2 Times My Money
Mike Arrington has a post up at TechCrunch about Parakey, the embryonic startup that featured Mozilla whiz-kid Blake Ross as a co-founder.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-09-26

Will MSFT Push Yahoo to Buy Facebook?
According to the Wall Street Journal, the software behemoth known as the Beast from Redmond is looking at buying between three and...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-09-25

Mozy on over and get your $76-million
Mike Arrington has the news over at TechCrunch that Mozy has reportedly been acquired by EMC for $76-million.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-09-24

Free Means Never Having to Say Youre Sorry
Not surprisingly, the decision by the New York Times to tear down its pay wall has fueled speculation that Rupert Murdoch will...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-09-20

Fair Use Costs/Makes Money - Discuss
Its funny how all those press releases that the record industry sends out about the costs of music piracy rarely ever mention fair use...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-09-14

Google and the Wires Torpedo Newspapers
A fascinating announcement from Google about an arrangement with four of the worlds major wire services that will see their content featured...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-09-04

Can You Say "Facebook Bubble"?
Wow. Thats all I can say. Inside Facebook says that TripAdvisor has bought the Where Ive Been app for Facebook for a massive $3-million...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-08-17

Who Does Kara Swisher Work For?
The question in the title of this post is meant to be facetious " sort of. I know that Kara works for the Wall Street Journal...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-08-16

Are Newspapers Totally Screwed?
Henry Blodget, who used to be a Wall Street analyst and now runs a content hub called Silicon Alley Insider recently wrote...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-08-14

Has the NYT seen the light on the pay wall?
According to a report in the New York Post, the New York Times has decided to drop the Times Select pay wall...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-08-07

Money = A Way of Keeping Score
When I read the New York Times piece about the poor multi-millionaires lamenting their poverty " while living in million-dollar homes...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-08-06

Freshbooks helps Amazon take on PayPal
I know theres been a lot of Canadian flag-waving around here, what with my recent posts on Treehugger, Club Penguin and Webkinz...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-08-06

NowPublic Turns Down Takeover Bids
NowPublic.com " the citizen journalism site based in Vancouver " has turned down takeover bids from two major media entities...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-07-30

Facebook is Worth...
As I mentioned in my recent Globe and Mail column on the Facebook IPO rumours, I don't think there has been so much...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-07-13

Murdoch shoots from the lip on WSJ
Time magazine managed to land an exclusive interview with Rupert Murdoch (maybe it was by promising him the cover and a cover line like...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-06-29

Is Facebook really "the new AOL"?
Jason Kottke has expanded on his one-liner (referred to below) and agrees with Scott Heiferman's comparison to AOL's "rainman" platform from days gone by.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-06-29

Google Funding Widget Incubator
Google appears to be setting up a kind of widget incubator program - like a Y Combinator/Startup Camp for widgets...
InternetFinancialNews > Latest News > Reports 2007-06-28

Is it too late for LinkedIn to catch Facebook?
As far as I'm concerned, the answer is yes. But I still think it's interesting to see that LinkedIn is planning to open its network in what appears...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-06-25

Running Red Queen's Race in Newspapers
I missed this the other day, but my friend Scott Karp had a great, in-depth look at the New York Times and its...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-06-18

Google Still Not in Top 20
VentureBeat has a post up about the stock-market value of Google's shares, and how it briefly eclipsed that of Cisco - Silicon Valley's biggest...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-06-11

As Homer said: "Stupid like a fox"
In a recent post, my friend Tony Hung of Deep Jive Interests has taken an audio interview that David "Everything is Miscellanous" Weinberger did with Craig Newmark of craigslist.org and concluded that Craig...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-06-07

Andreesen on the Non-bubble
My friend Paul Kedrosky - who unfortunately wasn't able to make it to mesh last week, and therefore wasn't able to...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-06-04

Could Facebook eat Yahoo's lunch?
As promised, Facebook has launched an ambitious effort to transform itself from being just a social network...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-05-25

Google Denies News Site Deals
According to Ars Technica, Google says there is no truth to the recent story in Scotland's Sunday Herald...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-05-24

CBS buys Howard Lindzon's brain
Okay, CBS didn't buy Howard Lindzon's brain - but it is paying a substantial sum, how substantial is still up for debate...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-05-23

Will Amazon Take a Bite Out of Apple?
After months (possibly more than a year) of rumours, Amazon has finally said that it is getting into...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-05-17

Google Office keeps rolling
Just a couple of days after buying Tonic, which gave the company a PowerPoint-style application to add to its growing toolbox of Office apps...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-04-20

Microsoft proves that irony is dead
Maybe thats why Microsoft passed on and let Google take it away for $3.1-billion...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-04-17

Maxthon
Everyone seems pretty excited at news that Google has invested a whopping $1-million (say it with a Doctor Evil sneer " its more fun) in Maxthon, the browser that seems to have taken China by storm.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-04-11

Hey, Im on Techmeme
According to Talking Biz News, the writers-turned-bloggers at Business 2.0 magazine " who were directed to start blogs by editor Josh Quittner " have received their first paycheques based on their blogs.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-04-09

Yahoo : Missing the Boat on Facebook
Eric Savitz at Barrons Online has an item about Yahoo and Facebook, in which he quotes Needham analyst Mark May as saying that Yahoo may have missed yet another boat by not acquiring the social-networking site"
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-04-05

Hey Ma! They got TV on the Internet now!
After much rumour and innuendo, as well as some sabre-rattling in the direction of Google and YouTube - or at least Comedy Central-rattling...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-03-23

Grazr gets $1.5-million financing
Not sure whether to call this an exclusive, but it might be as I type this: my email friend Adam Green just let me know that Grazr.com - the embeddable feed-browser app...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-03-08

Microsoft takes a cheap shot at Google
When giving a speech to a particular interest group, it's not uncommon for a speaker to take a stand that is sympathetic to that group...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-03-06

Why should we celebrate tech IPOs?
My friend and former journalism colleague Mark Evans points to a piece in Business 2.0 magazine with the enthusiastic title "Tech IPOs: They're back!"
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-02-22

NowPublic and AP form partnership
Some pretty big developments at Vancouver-based NowPublic, the "citizen journalism" or "participatory media" site, or whatever your preferred term is.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-02-12

"Blog Payola" Draws Adverse Reaction
Looks like round three (or is it round four?) of the blog payola debate is upon us, something I expected we would see more of in 2007.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-01-16

A Web 2.0 revolt against Yahoo management
As Mark Twain once said, everyone complains about the weather but no one ever does anything about it.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-01-12

Kaboose Acquires Bubbleshare
Not that long ago, there were some red-hot rumours that Bubbleshare was about to be acquired by News Corp. for around $5-million.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-01-05

Jobs' Reality-Distortion Field Still Intact
I know this is probably going to trigger a wave of enraged emails from Apple fans - or "Macolytes," as I like to call them - but...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-01-03

Web 2.0 Charity
Austin Hill has put together what he hopes will become a Web 2.0-style charity called Gifter, and launched it with a "million-dollar blog post."
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-12-20

Google: Anti-trust case waiting to happen?
Depending on whom you talk to about Googles share of the search market, you're likely to get estimates of anywhere from 30% to 49%.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-12-20

Facebook to Yahoo: Please (Don't) Buy Us
Did Peter Thiel have to practice in a mirror saying that Facebook is worth $8-billion, so that he didn't smirk at the wrong time, or burst out laughing?
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-12-18

Social Networks Named Person of the Year
Bubble-ology has become a more popular topic than ever now that Time magazine has named You as its annual Person of the Year...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-12-18

Gates Fields Bloggers' Questions
Bill Gates, co-founder and chairman of Microsoft and the worlds richest man, met with a bunch of technology bloggers yesterday.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-12-15

Facts get in the way of a good story
I'm sure there are lots of people who are even now blaming blogs and new media and God knows what else for the frenzy of stories about...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-12-14

Google's Video Gamble
Well, that didn't take long. It's only been a few months since Google bought YouTube, and now it is signing deals with broadcasters.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-12-08

The Birth of Google, Inc.
I've come across various versions of this story, but I still love hearing it: Andy Bechtolsheim, one of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems, gets...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-12-05

Is the Web bubble back? Ask Hitwise
From the London Telegraph comes a rumour that Hitwise - one of the half a dozen web-traffic measurement companies...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-12-04

Torontos OpenCola lives on in Swarmcast
Given the kind of publicity that Bram Cohen and BitTorrent have recently gotten by announcing deals with Warner Brothers...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-12-01

BitTorrent deal amounts to very little
Like most press releases, the one about the deal between the Hollywood movie studios and BitTorrent is full of bombast and hype about this historic arrangement and how it will stop piracy...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-11-30

The Virtual World's First Millionaire?
So the Second Life avatar known as Anshe Chung - whose real-world equivalent is known as Ailin Graef - has issued a press release saying...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-11-28

Yahoo buys yournamehere.com
Maybe all the criticism about how Google is winning and Yahoo is sitting around with its thumb you-know-where has gotten to Terry Semel.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-11-20

Yahoo! This peanut butter is del.icio.us
I'm not the only one who wonders why Yahoo has bought so many things and yet has done such a poor job of doing anything with them.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-11-20

Startup Camp gets rolling in Toronto
My friend Rob Hyndman, lawyer/advisor to geeks and startups and a fellow organizer of the mesh conference, has decided that...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-11-09

Leverage Those Core Competencies
So CBS wants to find and buy the next YouTube before it gets big. Gee, I wonder why no one else has thought of that? Way to go, CBS.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-11-07

YouTube and Viacom bury the hatchet?
Reportedly, YouTube and Viacom have reached a licensing deal that would allow copyrighted Viacom content on YouTube once again.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-11-01




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